He was especially great as a mathematician and geometrician, so that Horace calls him Maris et terra numeroque carentis arenae Mensorem.
Od.i.

28.1.
Plato is supposed to have learned some of his views from him, and Aristotle to have borrowed from him every idea of the Categories.
[10] This was not Timaeus the historian, but a native of Locri, who is said also in the De Finibus (c.

29) to have been a teacher of Plato.
There is a treatise extant bearing his name, which is, however, probably spurious, and only an abridgment of Plato's dialogue Timaeus.
[11] Dicaearchus was a native of Messana, in Sicily, though he lived chiefly in Greece.

He was one of the later disciples of Aristotle.

He was a great geographer, politician, historian, and philosopher, and died about 285 B.C.
[12] Aristoxenus was a native of Tarentum, and also a pupil of Aristotle.